Blogs from San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina, South America - page 5

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Friends and Family (those of you still reading), I know I have been home for five days, but I put off writing this final entry because it seemed to be the end to a wonderful trip. If I did not have such a good family, fine friends, and good job back here I am not sure I would have left Argentina. It is a big land, with a big heart and often a healthy laugh. I will miss it and hope to return. But a few final notes are in order. First, what is the deal with the dogs? They are everywhere, middle of the sidewalk sleeping in the sun on a busy downtown street; following us down a ten mile mountain trail; heck, one met us when we got of a bus in Bariloche and ... read more
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Friends and family, I am waiting for some photos from the fishing trip on Monday and Tuesday, so I thought I would fill you in on driving herein Argentina. I feel safe in doing that now that we have returned the rental car without incident. First the roads, most of them are gravel. The major highways are paved and most of the streets in the middle of town. However everything else is gravel, from the secondary roads that connect towns to the neighborhood streets. Additionally, most of the bridges, except on the major routes, are one lane and often wooden. The rule about how you cross such bridges is similar to intersections, see below. It being summer, this is road construction season. Unlike the states with long waits for construction traffic as one lane creeps past, ... read more


Dear friends and family, (Author,s note: this entry is posted on the first anniversary of my father-in-laws death. Glen Burchby passed on to his grandsons through his daughter, my wife, Marcia, a love of adventure and the ability to connect to people. He would have loved this trip and today's blog is posted in honor of him and his favorite saying..."nothing can go wrong!") The taxi we arranged arrived on time last Tuesday and immediately the fun began. The driver thought we wanted him to drive us up to Rufugio Jacob, a ten mile hike into the Andes. Once we straightened him out that we wanted to go to Tambo the starting point we were off, sort off. He id not really know where Tambo was, for reasons that would become obvious, and we ended up ... read more
The start of the trail
Cold pizza
Bridge crossing


Friends and family, So, we are back in Bariloche after three days of fishing in some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen. Sorry there will not be too many pictures this time, we don't have a way to load them from the camera to the ipad, but Mauro, our guide will be sending some soon. We began the trip about 30 kilometers outside of Bariloche where we launched Mauro's wooden drift boat into some of the biggest water I have ever fished. The Rio Limay at this point was a good 70 yards across and flowing at over 24,000 cfg! The water was gin clear, you could count the pebbles as we flew downstream. No sooner had w launched than the famous Patagonia winds kicked up. John was drifting a nymph and i ... read more
Rio Traful
Mauro and George
Rio traful


After John went for a 10K run to work off that steak, we hit the town again. John bought himself a knife (see shop owner and knife in photo) and we scouted out our trip for next week. Once the local mountaineering club figured out that John knew what he was doing we got the green light on a pass we are going to tackle. Since he missed any veggies at lunch John had a salad at dinner (I had beef). But we could not resist the chocolate shop for desert! (See photos) This is a very friendly town, probably because John works so hard to speak and learn Spanish. We leave tomorrow for three days of fishing and will be staying on the river, so do't look for any updates until Sunday night.... read more
Main park, Bariloche
Salad for dinner
Mmmm, chocolate


This is lunch...John had the steak. Also met yet another friend if his on the street, see photo.... read more
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Good morning. We finished off last night with a great asado (beef, it is what's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner here) sandwiches and El Bolson beers, $16 US, and then 10 hours of great sleep. Up this morning for some grocery shopping. Note in the photos that the milk is packaged in plastic bags and check out the meat counter! Coffee with Mauro Ocho who is floating us two days on the Rio Limay and one on Rio Traful--two of the great fishing rivers in the world. No surprise to me, we met two of John's friends from OB while walking down the street!... read more
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After 43 hours on the road, we have made it to Bariloche and the Hostel Patanuk. I have attached a photo to this post that is taken from the common/dining room of the hostel...you can see it was worth the journey. We landed at Buneos Aires around 7:15 this morning and, after it took a pretty easy hour to clear immigration and customs we were me by Maurio who was to drive us from the international airport to the domestic airport for our next flight. I can see why they recommed 4 hours for this transfer of airports as the road from one to the other goes right through the middle of this giant city of over 7 million. John kept up a friendly banter with Maurio IN SPANISH. Who knew? Maurio was very encouraging of ... read more
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So, we are off. Sort of. We are now in Miami and, courtesy of American Airlines being early on the flights from CMH to ORD and ORD to MIA, we have the full and total seven hour layover experience. It was made a bit easier by the lunch Marcia packed and we did some serious people watching....John said it was like being in LA again except the beautiful people here have found the color wheel to add to the always fashionable black. Oh, here is a shot of John killing time... When it started to rain here, actually a downpour with thunderstorms predicted for later tonight, John decided to burn off some energy ....... read more
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My friend, Tara and I are interested in renting a car for a couple of weeks to travel down the west side of Patagonia. Any 1-3 travelers interested in renting with us? We want to leave from Bariloche around the 22nd of November.... read more




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